Integrated silicon photonics has sparked a significant ramp-up of investment in both
academia and industry as a scalable, power-efficient, and eco-friendly solution. At the heart …

Laser gain regions using quantum dots have numerous improvements over quantum wells
for photonic integration. Their atom-like density of states gives them unique gain properties …

Silicon photonic integration has gained great success in many application fields owing to the
excellent optical device properties and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) …

In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

Epitaxially grown quantum dot (QD) lasers are emerging as an economical approach to
obtain on-chip light sources. Thanks to the three-dimensional confinement of carriers, QDs …

Direct epitaxial integration of III-V materials on Si offers substantial manufacturing cost and
scalability advantages over heterogeneous integration. The challenge is that epitaxial …

Realizing efficient on-chip light sources has long been the “holy-grail” for Si-photonics
research. Several important breakthroughs were made in this field in the past few years. In …

Significant improvements in III–V/Si epitaxy have pushed quantum dots (QDs) to the forefront
of Si photonics. For efficient, scalable, and multifunctional integrated systems to be …

We present a brief overview of the various leading platforms for photonic integration.
Subsequently, we consider the possibility of a photonic integrated circuit platform utilizing …

With the emerging trend of big data and internet of things, silicon (Si) photonics technology
has been developed and applied for high‐bandwidth data transmission. Contributed by the …